Advertising device for road and other vehicles



Dec. 25, 1923. 1,478,475

A. c. JAGO ET AL ADVERTISING DEVICE FOR ROAD AND OTHER VEHICLES Filed April 18 1923 8/ 0 49y Wad/4 zl/ ATTyv Patented Dec. 25, 1%23.

UNHT TS ALFRED CHARLES JAGO EDWIN ARMITAGE WADE, OFCBOYDON, ENGLAND.

ADVERTISING DEVICE FOR ROAD OTHER VEHICLES.

Application filed April 18, 1923. Serial No. 632,961.

To all whom it may concern:

Ile it known that we, ALFRED CHARLES JAco and EDWIN ARMI'IAGE WADE, subjects of George V King of Great Britain and Ireland, resic ing, as to the said ALFRED hmnmcs Jneo, at 22 Godson Road, Croydon, in the county of Surrey, England, and as to the said EDWIN ARMITAGE WADE, at 81 London Road, Uroydon, aforesaid, England, have invented new and useful Improvements in Advertising Devices for Road and Other Vehicles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to advertising devices for road and other vehicles comprising a disc, plate or the like suspended at the side of a road wheel and adapted to carrying advertising matter. The chief object of this invention is to provide an improved and simplified construction and working of devices of the kind referred to.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which Fig. 1 is an edge view partly in section, of an ordinary pneumatic-tired wheel with a live axle having our floating disc mounted thereon, and Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a, tool adapted for use in assembling the device.

Referring to the drawings, we provide a special hub-cap a the inner end of which is internally threaded so that it can be screwed on to the hub b of the wheel I), and the outer end of which is furnished with a ballbearing a, 0 Secured friction-tight or otherwise within the inner portion 0 of the I ball bearing is a spindle d, the outer end of which carries a floating advertising disc 0. The ball bearing preferably has a double row of balls, to prevent rocking of the disc, and is sunk against a shoulder a formed in a recess in the outer end of the cap a. By forming the recess in the outer end of the cap, it can be machined with ease from such outer end. The ball bearing may be kept in place by means of a locking-ring f.

The disc is secured between an outer nut 71. screwed on to the spindle and an inner flanged collar which is mounted loosely on the spindle (Z. The collar has an inwardly projecting boss g which engages the outer face of the inner portion 0 of the ball bearing. Preferably, the inner faces of the flanged collar 9 and the nut it, also the central portion of the disc 6 engaged by such flanged collar and nut, are made flat, as shown.

Holes a 9', e and k are provided respectively in the outer end of the cap a, the flanged collar 7, the disc e and the nut k, which holes can be brought into registration with one another. The holes in each of these parts are conveniently two in number and they may be disposed diametrically 0p poslte one another.

In assembling the apparatus, the nut h is screwed up tightly thereby gripping the disc e firmly between the flanged collar 9 and the nut h and at the same time forcing the said boss g tightly against the inner portion of the ball bearing. Thus, when the whole is screwed up tightly, the inner portion of the ball bearing, the spindle, the flanged collar, the disc and the nut become virtually a single rigid body.

As the disc is preferably madle of conical shape and is arranged so that its periphery hes close to the felloe of the wheel, it will be understood that with such an arran ement the cap a could only with difficuIty be reached for the purpose of screwing it on to the wheel-hub. In order to avoid this difficulty, the holes a 9 e and b are brought into alignment with one another and the pins j of a pin spanner j are inserted into them from outside. In this way, the cap a is reached by the pin-spanner and can be screwed into position on to the wheel-hub. Thus, the whole apparatus can be assembled as a single unit ready for the market, and then all that the purchaser has to do is to remove the existing hub-cap and screw the new device into its place, whereupon such device is ready for use.

The s ace a within the cap is intended to be fille with lubricant whereby the ball bearing 0, c is kept continually lubricated.

In some cases, the cap is externally threaded so that it can be screwed into an internally threaded hub.

If desired, thecap may be provided with flats to take a spanner which can be shaped so that it can be introduced between the periphery of the disc and the felloe of the wheel, and in such a case, the holes a 9 e and k may be dispensed with.

In an alternative construction. the flanged IOU collar is spot-welded or otherwise fixed to middle portion of the disc'is not covered by a nut and can be shaped to a (point if so desired. Holes may be provide to take a pin-spanner as above described for the purpose of screwing the device on to or into the wheel-hub.

Instead of gripping the disc between a pair of nuts as above explained, it may be gripped between a collar provided on the short spindle and the head of a screw screwed into the spindle from the outer end of the latter. If desired a washer or lock nut may be placed between the head of said screw and the outer face, of the disc.

Obviously, a plain hearing may if desired, be employed instead of a ball bearing, and in such a case it may be desirable to connect the disc, by means of a spring or otherwise, to some suitable part of the vehiole so as to prevent its rotation.

Although the disc is preferably placed outside of the wheel, it may, in some cases, :be placed at the inner side of the wheel.

The disc may have applied thereto any desired advertising matter and may also be provided with "or constructed in the form of a human head or human figure, an anima-l or other object.

Thus, as the discs remain station .ary while the wheels rotate they provide "valuable advertising spaces which are pariticularlyaafittractive to onlookers as they present somewhat the illusion of stationary whe'el'sionza moving vehicle.

Provision may be made for illuminating thiefdisc durin darkness. For this purpose, ithe disc may die made in box-form of'any Eishape'to accommodate the illuminating de vices. The light may be allowed to show ithrough holes in the disc, or the disc may be "made partially or wholly of translucent maiterial. In some cases, the discis coated with phosphorescent paint.

' ZIhe disc may also be provided with .a .iflap arranged to cover the aside *off the tire rand come close to the road surtace so as to (constitute an anti-splashing device.

We claim:

1. An advertisingdeviice :for road :and

other vehicles comprising a cap zadagpted do be screwed on to the wheel fhub, a s indle, a ball-bearing supporting said ssp'in -l'e iin said cap, a portion off the inner part o'iiasaiid ball-bearing forming a sholilder with spindle, a flanged collar Home (on said spindle and in engagement with .said shoulder, a nut screwed on "said spindle, 98. disc or the like located between said iflanged collar and said nut, reap ,iflangedrcrillar,

nut, and disc orthe llike lhavingiholeswdliich emme can be brought into register with one another for the'purpose of receiving a tool whereby the flanged collar, the nut and the disc or the like can be secured in place on the said spindle.

2. An advertising device for road and other vehicles comprising a cap adapted to be screwed on to the wheel-hub, a spindle, a ball-bearing supporting said spindle in said cap, a portion of the inner part of said ball-bearing forming a shoulder with said s indle, a flanged collar loose-on said spin- (1 e and in engagement with said shoulder and carrying also a disc or the like, a nut screwed on said spindle, said cap, flanged collar, nut, and disc or the like having holes which can be brought into register with one another for the purpose of receiving a tool whereby the flanged collar, the nut and the disc or the like can be secured in place on the said spindle.

3. An advertising device for road and other vehicles comprising a cap adapted to be screwed on to the wheel-hub, a spindle, a ball-bearing supporting said spindle in said cap, a portion of the innerpart of said ball-bearing forming a shoulder with said spindle, a flanged collar screwed on said spindle and in engagement with said shoulder and carrying also a disc or the like, a nut screwed on said spindle, said cap, flanged collar, nut, and disc or the like having holes which can be brought into regis- 'ter wlth one another for the purpose of' receiving :a tool whereby the flanged collar, the nut and the disc or the like can be secured in place on the said spindle.

4. The co b'nat'ion with a vehicle road wheel of san zadvertising device comprising a cap adapted to be screwed on to the wheelhub, a "spindle, a ball-bearing supporting said spindle in said cap, a portion of the inner parlt of said ball-bearing forming a shoulder ssaid spindle, a flanged collar *loose i011 "said spindle and in engagement *withssai'd shoulder, a nut screwed on said spindle, Ea -adisc or the like located between said flanged collar and said nut, said cap,

-.-flanged tedllar, nut, and disc or the like hauing 'flroles which can be. brought into iregis'teriwith one another for thepurpose of ireceivirrg a tool whereby the flanged collar, ithe'nutrand the disc or. the like can be secured iin splace on the said spindle.

.EIn'testimony whereof we have signed our mames'ato this s ecification.

ALFR D'CHARLES JAGO. EDWIN ARMITAGE WADE.

itness:

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